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Apple Releases New 'iPad is Delicious' Commercial

What is the game where they cut the fruit on that board? Not listed on the Apps in Ads site.
 
Heinekev said:
What is the game where they cut the fruit on that board? Not listed on the Apps in Ads site.
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Fruit Ninja HD.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fruit-ninja-hd/id370066032?mt=8

Which brings me to my biggest gripe about my new iPad: what's with all iPad games (and apps) stuck at $4.99 (or more) for iPad when they're a buck or two for iPhone?

Fruit Ninja: $.99
Fruit Ninja HD: $4.99

So...you incorporate higher-res versions of your graphics and a few new bells and whistles and you raise the price 500%???
 
darrenbeige said:
Why should they have to?
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They shouldn't and they don't have to, but they can. Especially, after the developer hardly has anything left that Apple cannot take away. Introduce iSight - barcode reading to iBooks and it will look and function just like Delicious Library 2. Then the developer's intellectual property and patents can be purchased for a song.
 
bretm said:
Really? How old are you? I saw the PSP ad as preaching to little kids. Like, hey, little geek that rides a bus, get a PSP and appear smarter than that old (19?) guy with a bicycle.

As a grownup, I was quite embarrassed that they would stereotype the speech of both for that matter. Didn't really make either look intelligent. Didn't show off either product. It showed some PSP games that have equivalent on iPhone for half that price, and they sure weren't the best PSP games.

So to summarize the sony ad in lamens terms... "On PSP we have some old titles that cost twice as much as some of the best iPhone games. We have to use a separate device to make a phone call, which we are happy to point out in our ad. We don't have a touch screen, accelerometer, gps, internet, email or any of that so you'll also have to carry around a computer in your backpack. But don't worry, you can store all this gear in the overhead rack on the school bus. We're cool."
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28, how old are you? Does 28 count as grownup? and I think your little explanation shows just what a good advertisement does. No one points out their downfalls in their commercials (except BP of course). It is called MARKETING. I think they did a fine job. No need to insult someone by asking if they are an adult just because they like a commercial. Get over yourself.
 
NebulaClash said:
That gives me an idea for an app:

It has voice recognition. When it hears the question, "Are you magical?" it replies, "Yes, now quit bothering me while I continue casting spells."
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AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will buy an iPad just so I can have that app. Let me know when it is done.
 
Does anyone know the name of that math app?

I went to the iTunes link, but couldn't see it, if it was there.

As for magical or not, I think it's up to the individual user and how they use it.

As for being a game changer in the market, I definitely believe other companies will follow suit and the traditional netbook related laptops will be no more.

i think laptops for the power users will exist.
 
djellison said:
It's not frickin magical. It's very very obvious how it works. Accelerometers + Compass + GPS = device pointing at point in sky. It's the opposite of magical. I was using it at a camp site this weekend. 'Wow' 'Amazing' 'Awesome'.

All true.

But it's not magical. Magical would be if you could reach into the screen and pull out a rabbit, boom.
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Now you're just being churlish.
 
I know I'm enjoying my iPad, but magical? Meh - sometimes I get bored of it, put it down and go do something else. It's definitely nice for those times I want to consume internet while not sitting at my desk. That's magical enough.
 
mac1984user said:
You know what bothers me even more? The fact that the descriptive words came AFTER the events they described. I can't explain why, but it just really put me off. It should have been the other way around. Maybe it's because I was watching the video without sound...
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+900000

I thought I was the only one. I've seen the ad a lot of times already and I always get confused.. playful and they show a book.. artful and Twitter appears! Arrrgh! I have to consciously think it's arranged in a different way than my mind's way of thinking.. then I understand it.
 
djellison said:
Every time I hear the word Magical, I die a little inside.
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Magical, magical, magical... while(true) { magical } ; // die die die

Seriously, you don't believe they're claiming that the iPad can turn you into a newt, do you?

Rather, I think they're using the other sense of the word. From my dictionary: "beautiful or delightful in such a way as to seem removed from everyday life".
 
NebulaClash said:
Evidently not any more.
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what does it mean if I hit all 5 milestones by the time I was 26 (took a while for the kid part)? Also, just because someone gets laid off and has to move in with a family member does not mean they are not an adult, it may just mean they are like a lot of other people in this economy and have fallen on hard times. I think there are a significant number of adults moving in with their kids these days.
 
djellison said:
Every time I hear the word Magical, I die a little inside.

It's not frickin magical. It's a computer. I use and enjoy my 64gb 3G iPad regularly - and it is many things - but Magical is not one.
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I think magical is an "ok" word to use. Under Apple standards, probably.. But everyday life, kinda. People just don't see the "magical" in it. What alot haven't realized is that this is now some kind of computer that works perfect wherever you go. It's a computer, with a rich multi-media center. And it's Apple, everybody already guessed that this was happening and knew their technologies that they use. That's why people see it as a big iPod touch. It's ridiculous how they just see it to be worthless.

So,.. that's where i think Apple stamped it's approval of "magical". Because there's no portable computer/tablet like this in the world. So i think it has a point, in some way, but, c'mon.. Magical sounds like a pretty cheesy word :p haha.
 
coyote said:
Thanks! Ignore, and thankfully! But you're right, it would be nice if it were simpler to ignore the folks who only come here to complain and sow negativity.
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It would be even nicer if they just went elsewhere. Alas, there's no button for that. Yet. :(
 
DMann said:
That would be MathBoard for iPad.

I've also been using Elements, and Star Map Pro, which are beyond awesome.
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+1 on Star Map Pro. Distant Suns is terrific and very pretty, too. I always bring my iPad along during long and boring night flights over the pacific to check out the stars. (long haul pilot here...). :)
 
djellison said:
Every time I hear the word Magical, I die a little inside.

It's not frickin magical. It's a computer. I use and enjoy my 64gb 3G iPad regularly - and it is many things - but Magical is not one.
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Need I remind you (if someone else hasn't already) of Arthur C. Clarke's famous third law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

To many people, some of what the iPad does would be considered magic.

jW
 
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